Wayground for Teachers: The Complete Getting-Started Guide (2026)

Wayground (formerly Quizizz) has become one of the most widely used gamified learning platforms in American classrooms — and for good reason. It turns everyday review, practice, and assessment into game-show-style activities that students genuinely enjoy. If you are a teacher who is new to Wayground, or you used Quizizz before the rebrand and want to get the most out of the new platform, this guide walks you through everything: setting up your account, creating your first activity, running live games, assigning homework, and reading the data that comes back.

What Is Wayground?

Wayground is a free-to-start learning platform where teachers create or import interactive quizzes, lessons, flashcards, and polls. Students join with a simple game code from any device — no student account required for most activities. In June 2025, Quizizz officially rebranded as Wayground, signaling a shift from a pure quiz tool toward a broader instructional platform with AI-powered content creation and curriculum support. The core experience teachers loved stayed the same; you can read exactly what changed in the rebrand here.

Teachers use Wayground for bell ringers, exit tickets, test review, sub plans, homework, and even full lessons. Because every question is self-graded, it saves hours of marking time each week.

Setting Up Your Free Teacher Account

Getting started takes about two minutes:

1. Go to wayground.com and click Sign up.
2. Choose Teacher as your role.
3. Register with Google, Microsoft, or an email address. Most schools using Google Workspace simply use the "Continue with Google" option so everything stays in one login.
4. Select your grade levels and subjects — this personalizes the activity library you see first.

If your students previously used Quizizz logins, those credentials continue to work on Wayground. Having trouble signing in? See our complete login guide and our fixes for common student login problems.

Finding Ready-Made Activities in the Library

You do not need to build everything from scratch. The Wayground library contains millions of teacher-created quizzes and lessons searchable by keyword, grade, and subject. When you find one you like, you can:

• Play it as-is — start a live game or assign it instantly.
• Duplicate and edit — make a copy, then delete, reword, or add questions to fit your standards.
• Teleport questions — pull individual questions from several quizzes into one custom activity.

A practical workflow for busy teachers: search the topic, open the three most relevant results, teleport the best questions from each into one 15-question review, and save it to a folder named for the unit.

Creating Your Own Quiz

Click Create from your dashboard to open the editor. Wayground supports far more than multiple choice: reorder, match, drag and drop, fill-in-the-blank, open-ended, polls, audio and video response, drawing, and math response types are all available. Mixing two or three question types keeps games from feeling repetitive. We have a full step-by-step tutorial on creating your first quiz, and a guide to using Wayground AI to generate an entire quiz from a topic, a document, or even a YouTube video in under a minute.

Running a Live Game

Live games are where Wayground shines. From any activity, click Start a live activity and choose a mode:

• Classic — every student answers at their own pace on their own device; a leaderboard updates in real time.
• Team mode — students are grouped and team scores are averaged, which protects struggling students from being singled out.
• Test mode — leaderboards, memes, and power-ups are switched off for a quiet assessment experience.

Students join at wayground.com/join with the code shown on your screen. If a code will not work, our troubleshooting guide covers every common cause. For a smooth first game: project the leaderboard, enable the question timer only for review games, and keep memes on — students love them.

Assigning Homework and Practice

Every activity can also be assigned asynchronously. Set an open and close date, decide how many attempts students get, and share the link through Google Classroom, Canvas, or a simple URL. Students complete it on their own time and results flow into the same reports as live games. This homework mode guide explains the settings that matter, including how to allow retakes for mastery-based grading.

Reading Reports and Student Data

After any game, open the Reports tab. You will see class-level accuracy, question-by-question breakdowns, and individual student performance. The most useful habit: sort by lowest-accuracy question and reteach just those items the next day. Reports can be downloaded as spreadsheets or emailed to parents. Our dedicated guide to Wayground reports and analytics shows how to turn this data into action, and the teacher dashboard walkthrough covers where everything lives.

Accommodations and Accessibility

Wayground includes accommodations such as read-aloud text-to-speech, extended or disabled timers, and translation support, which you can set for individual students so the whole class plays the same game fairly. Details are in our accommodations guide.

Free vs Paid: What Do Teachers Actually Need?

The free Starter plan covers live games, homework assignment, the public library, and basic reports — enough for most individual classroom use. Paid Individual and School plans raise participant limits, unlock premium library content, full AI access, and deeper admin analytics. See our breakdown of Wayground plans and pricing and current free-plan participant limits before deciding whether to upgrade.

Five Quick Wins for Your First Week

1. Run a 5-question Classic game as a Monday bell ringer.
2. Assign a 10-question homework practice with two attempts allowed.
3. Use Team mode for Friday review — it changes the energy completely.
4. Let Wayground AI draft a quiz from your existing study guide, then edit.
5. After each game, reteach the single lowest-scoring question.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Wayground free for teachers?

Yes. The Starter plan is free and includes live games, homework, and the public library. Paid plans add capacity and premium features.

Do students need accounts?

No — students can join live games with just a code and a nickname. Accounts are only needed when you want progress tracked across assignments in a class.

Is Wayground the same as Quizizz?

Yes. Quizizz rebranded to Wayground in 2025. Same platform, same logins, new name and expanded AI features.

Does Wayground work with Google Classroom?

Yes. You can import rosters and push assignments directly to Google Classroom, and grades can be synced on paid school plans.

TheQuizizz.com is an independent guide and is not affiliated with Wayground (formerly Quizizz).